Unless Democrats can promise genuine transformative change (and not just a return to a broken status quo), they will continue to lose elections.
Trump is awful. But it is not enough just to be the alternative. There must be a real vision. I am not seeing it yet.
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Lisa Disch: "In the 19th century, a third-party vote was much more than a gesture of protest." Back then, #FusionVoting 🗳️ helped to sustain a multiparty system that was much more representative of voters’ ideologies and preferences. Learn more: centerforballotfreedom.org

What is the fate of mass-membership political parties in the 21st century? Some commenters have argued that they are dated, as socialist and labor parties decline across much of the world, and as personality politics rise, aided by mass media and social media

Fusion Voting Conference in Kansas!

Sadly, most states prohibit fusion voting, which lets a party exercise its right to endorse a candidate even if another party also endorses the candidate

@workingfamilies.org, @newamerica.org, @washburnuniversity.bsky.social

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The two-party system is at the core of the current crisis: one of the main reasons so few Republicans will oppose Trump is because the only real opposition is the Democrats, whom they viscerally hate. If there were more than two parties fewer people would endorse everything 'their side' does

A *real party* would have a *policy* for its elected members to implement on questions like this. (That platform could be something like: no voting to confirm any Trump nominees.)

This illustrates perfectly why *pro-parties* reform is essential to fighting the far right. Germans angry at the status quo parties of the center-left and center-right have *several options* to cast a protest vote. Here, it's the old way or Trump.

@leedrutman.bsky.social

If we had real political parties in this country, now would be a perfect time for politicking: recruiting more people to become dues-paying members, advancing platform measures like *no confirmations for any Trump nominee*, no appropriations until the president stops illegal impoundment, impeachment

Politics in the US has been at a dead-end long before Trump.

We cannot change the dominant two parties, due to their internal lack of democracy.

We cannot create viable third parties, due to ballot access obstacles and our first-past-the-post electoral system.

We need structural change!